verb

Restrain or immobilize (someone) by tying up or holding their arms or legs.

'Then she went up and held on to him, pinioned him, her head on his left shoulder.'

'Oh, Mr. Goose, it appears that you are pinioned behind a wall of chain!'

'In his haste to escape he fell and was pinioned between the stalks.'

'The matronly Judith, unable to hack off Holofernes's head, carves through it with businesslike concentration, pinioning him to the blood-weltering bed with the help of her equally brutish maidservant.'

'Within seconds he had me pinioned on my back, his own weight pressing me down.'

'The latter's figure of King Harold pinioned by an arrow through the eye has been more influential in the historical imagination of generations of British school children than all the patient researches of scholars.'

'She felt them tighten the strap around her waist and realized that she was now quite securely pinioned.'

'Gaulier bends her at the waist, her arms pinioned behind her, and karate-chops her back.'

'It took two of them to pinion my arms, I was fighting so hard, and one of them had to clamp a hand over my mouth so I wouldn't be heard if I screamed.'

'Pretending to be caught by surprise, Jocelyn allowed two thieves to violently pinion her hands behind her back and slap metal cuffs onto her wrists, struggling only after the bonds had been secured.'

'Mara was behind it in a flash, pinioning the figure's arms to its sides.'